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Mulholland Drive: Criterion Collection

November 17, 2015

Mulholland Drive (2001) started as a television pilot that did not get picked up by an American network. Instead of just letting it go and moving on to something else, David Lynch reunited his cast and crew for reshoots, filmed new material, which transformed... 

Eastern Promises

January 14, 2008

Ever since his big budget remake of The Fly (1986), David Cronenberg has flirted with mainstream success. Known early on in his career as a provocative and original horror/science fiction filmmaker, he began to dabble in other genres with his adaptation... 

King Kong: Deluxe Extended Edition

November 29, 2006

King Kong (2005) is Peter Jackson’s epic, mega-budget, fanboy love letter to the film that inspired him to become a movie director in the first place. Clocking in at double the running time of the original, Jackson’s film is an ambitious juggernaut... 

King Kong

April 6, 2006

King Kong (2005) is Peter Jackson’s epic, mega-budget, fanboy love letter to the film that inspired him to become a movie director in the first place. Clocking in at double the running time of the original, Jackson’s film is an ambitious juggernaut... 

King Kong

March 31, 2006

You’d think after spending five years working on the most epic of trilogies Peter Jackson would take time out, or do a smaller project, and for a while it looked like The Lovely Bones would be his next film; a follow-up of sorts to Heavenly Creatures... 

Stay

March 13, 2006

Made after his auspicious debut, Monster’s Ball (2001), and the prestigious Miramax period drama, Finding Neverland (2004), Marc Forster’s supernatural thriller Stay (2005) is his cinematic bastard child, virtually ignored by critics and audiences... 

King Kong – Peter Jackson’s Production Diaries

February 16, 2006

In order to capitalize on the release of Peter Jackson’s remake of King Kong (2005), Universal has released a collection of production diaries on a 2-DVD set. These brief segments originally aired on Kong is King, a fan website dedicated to the movie.... 

The Ring 2

December 2, 2005

After the huge success of the arguably superior Hollywood remake of the hit Japanese chiller Ringu (try saying that after a few pints), comes the predictable sequel. Now, sequels fall into two categories: ones that take the original idea and build on... 

I Heart Huckabees

August 18, 2005

“We’re not in infinity, we’re in the suburbs.” – Albert I Heart Huckabees (2004) is a strange movie. After satirically skewering the U.S.’ involvement in the first Gulf War with Three Kings (1999), David O. Russell took some time off to regroup... 

21 Grams

April 24, 2004

21 Grams (2003) is a postmodern pastiche that focuses on the lives of three deeply flawed people whose lives have been shattered by a pivotal event that connects them in ways they couldn’t possibly have imagined. They are lost, adrift in a world... 

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